Hospice News

MAY 16, 2024

Historically, Pennant has focused on underperforming M&A targets as the company continues to grow organically, Guerisoli said in a Q1 earnings call. The company has also targets operations in more rural areas. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.4% of the Lone Star State’s overall population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Going forward, VITAS is targeting its home state of Florida and other Certificate of Need (CON) states for potential deals, Michael Witzeman, vice president, CFO and controller at Chemed said during the Bank of America Securities Health Care Conference.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

As we talk about these live discharge rates, for instance, why isn’t CMS targeting those? Why are they not targeting these hospices that have large live discharge rates and large cap rates? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] on what they’re actually auditing for.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Targeting low-performing hospices for increased oversight via a specific program makes sense and is aligned with our overall thoughts on wanting to support high-quality hospice …,” LeadingAge indicated in its comments. We also want to underscore that the SFP program is a program intended to be targeting poor performing hospices.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Historically, Pennant has focused on underperforming M&A targets with high turnaround upside. The company has also targeted operations in more rural areas. “We Developing strong local leadership has been a pinnacle of sustainable growth as the company continues to hone its organic and same-store strategy, Guerisoli said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In addition to bingo halls, scammers have targeted seniors at casinos and other known areas where older adult populations often congregate, according to Sheila Clark, president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

ASCO staff identified a series of questions to help guide health equity aspects of future guideline updates: What disadvantaged populations are included in the identified target audience? Do subpopulations have different baseline risks? In what settings will the interventions be implemented? What resources do these settings have?

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

CMS will also introduce components designed to address health-related social needs in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, targeted to beneficiaries in underserved communities, as well as new data collection requirements.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Going forward, VITAS is targeting its home state of Florida and other Certificate of Need (CON) states for potential deals, Michael Witzeman, vice president, CFO and controller at Chemed said during the Bank of America Securities Health Care Conference.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Critics argue that PE and PTCs could prioritize short-term, above-market returns, which may lead to agencies selectively enrolling and targeting patients who require less complex care and longer hospice stays, such as those with dementia and nursing home residents.” rise in dementia patients and a 5.3% increase in home-based care delivery.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Be sure your target area can support a clinic. “Mission-driven organizations like Hospice of Northwest Ohio use community support to assist these programs so that we can meet the needs of patients and families in the community.” Identify a community partner.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Prioritizing among overdue standard surveys for hospices based on potential risk factors, such as previous quality issues, could help target such hospices.” The post GAO: CMS Should Step Up Hospice Oversight, Surveys appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

We’re likely to be very targeted, and it’ll be in the hundreds of millions not in the billions.”. Following VillageMD-Summit deal, for instance, it increased its health care segment revenue targets to between $14.5 The previous target ranged from $11 billion to $12 billion. . “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

“A comprehensive approach to palliative care, including access to interdisciplinary teams, home visits, and shared decision-making could improve beneficiary care, appropriately adapted to the target population and setting,” the CMMI report said. This made it difficult for participating providers to reach their targeted patient populations.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

If [enough] patients in your area are on a specific MA plan, that’s the one you need to target. “A lot of your patients, if you look at your statistics of beneficiaries right now, are in Medicare Advantage plans,” Gaboury said at the conference. “If

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

What made Uintah Basin a promising target? We were expanding our services, and it was a natural extension of our geographic reach, as it was a synergistic target. Over-valuation of hospice targets has created a surge of start-ups. We were already working closely with the hospital system for home health and hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2023

I do worry that because people are becoming more aware of what hospice can be and the service it provides that we’re going to be a target pretty soon, and we’re already somewhat of a target from CMS. But when you think about that health care dollar, it’s probably the biggest value, especially at the end of life.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s taken us two years to get back to our 50% [gross margin] target, we’re really proud of the home health and hospice team for how hard they worked to get it there.” We’re pleased with our gross margin, demonstrating our continued focus on cost initiatives to achieve our targeted margin profile,” Buckhalter said.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

First, the company targets patient populations with complex needs in large, growing markets. BrightSpring Health Services’ (NASDAQ: BTSG) growth strategy rests on three pillars.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Targeting low-performing hospices for increased oversight via a specific program makes sense and is aligned with our overall thoughts on wanting to support high-quality hospice …,” LeadingAge indicated in public comments on the proposed home health rule. LeadingAge is broadly supportive of the idea of [an SFP].

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

“Their provider-led interventions targeting ballooning oncologic drug spend and acute care utilization highlight their unique approach to system-wide affordability, and their deep partnerships in cancer care mark their proven success.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Collectively, the organizations voiced “strong” support for a targeted, temporary moratorium on new Medicare-certified hospices in counties with “troubling trends” in the emergence of newly licensed providers. “By collaborating with other hospice provider groups, Congress, and CMS, we hope there is meaningful change.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Increased have been reported across multiple types of audits, including Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) audits conducted by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACS) and others involving Unified Program Integrity Contractors (UPIC) , Supplemental Medical Review Contractors (SMRC) and Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC).

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2023

[It’s] looking at those different care levels from a margin standpoint and identifying what that target is, and then looking at your cost-per-visit either around high, medium or low levels to figure out the threshold.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

The SFP methodology also incorporates data from the Hospice Care Index (HCI) data, with CMS targeting hospices who fall within the lowest 10% of performers on a range of quality metrics and survey data.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

Pennant will continue pursuing growth opportunities in hospice, home health and senior living, targeting strategic and underperforming operations of all sizes, Gochnour added. The company’s current holds 115 hospice and home health agencies and 54 senior living providers as independent subsidiaries.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2024

It is an active pipeline, and a very targeted and focused one,in states, as well as in counties, particularly those that are restricted, because we think they operate very efficiently and help to service the needs of all those communities,” Westfall said in an earnings call.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

We decided to proactively go nationwide and become legally compliant in each state, because many of the customers we are working with and we are targeting are nationwide. Now, the company’s ambitions to go national are coming to fruition, according to CEO and Co-founder Tatiana Fofanova. “We Following the $3.5

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC) and Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) audits are among the most common types of audits that hospices undergo simultaneously alongside others. The auditors are coming in and looking for any reason to deny and then rubber-stamping the denials that were done at the lower levels.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2024

The concepts that are behind the development of the [HOPE] tool are to help hospice providers understand care needs of their patients through the dying process, and ensuring that safety and comfort is a primary focus and target for patients enrolled in hospice nationwide.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2023

The company has had an eye on Experience Care as a possible acquisition target, attracted by a clinical software solution that is integrated with back-office financial software, as well as other capabilities, Ashe said.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Throughout that period, the model hit every one of its targets — reducing costs, improving quality and family satisfaction, and keeping patients in their homes. The agency launched the MCCM in 2016. Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS later extended it until December 2021.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Historically, Pennant has focused on underperforming M&A targets with high turnaround upside. The company has likewise targeted operations in more rural areas.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

To date, the system has exceeded those targets, he indicated. The health system developed plans to bring its other hospitals’ programs to a 10% penetration rate and to speed the introduction of those services to eligible patients.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

An important first step was to understand individuals’ current screening processes and practices then implement a streamlined, targeted solution without disruption to clinical workflows. The project’s goal was to develop a standardized method for assessing caregiver distress.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

We should be extremely cautious about making major changes to a system that works extremely well for the vast majority of patients and take small, targeted approaches to improve the system in cases where it is not working.” “There is no way to ascertain what impact this change would have on hospices or patients and families. …

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It is recommended that relevant departments formulate and promote the implementation of targeted measures to improve the knowledge level of this population.” “It can be seen that nurses’ mastery of palliative care knowledge is not sufficient,” researchers said in the BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care analysis. “It

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